From Aunt Carol...

Aunt Carol Alger is the 5th Poulos kid, and the comedian of the family. It's hard to capture what she said without her voice filled with both humor and sadness, but you'll get the idea....

I started thinking about the past with my sister, but not the last two years because its been too sad. I usually can find humor in anything, but not in ALS.

My sister catered in Miami with her friend Mafie. They catered for people like Glorida Estfan and Jeb Bush. Jeb love her spinach pie, one of her signature dishes. Another one of her signature dishes was telling me what to do! So she made me join them on their catering adventures. One New Years's Eve night, the girls booked two parties.  They dropped me off at the first one and said, "Here is all the food and wine, we will see you later!" I cannot believe they did that! She told me to take all the dishes home with me and wash them. So I made it through the night and went home and put all of Mafie's crystal wine glasses in the dishwasher and went to bed. In the morning when I went to put them back in the boxes all the stems were broken. I called Janet she told me I should have hand washed them! We laughed and I gave them back to Mafie without telling her...sorry Mafie!


It was never easy for Janet to be the oldest of seven, always trying to keep us in line. It was a difficult job and we never made it easy on her. But we always did what she said, even if we did not want to. Janet and I talked a lot this last year, mainly about our faith in God and that we wanted to see a miracle.  She said either God will heal me or take me home with Him. We both had a new walk with Jesus that would change our lives forever.

Casey texted me at work on Wednesday and said, "Hurry, come! Mom is dying."  I will never forget that moment.  I made it right before she went home. Told her to say high to mom and dad, and that she would be with Jesus. That night I had a dream that she was talking and moving like she had never had that horrible disease. I said to her, "Janet ,you are all better!"  I have learned this year that God does answer prayers but, they always look different on how I would envision them to look.  We both learned to stop asking why, why! Janet wanted everyone to no how strong her faith was.

I love you, you will be missed forever. Carol